Silent Courage

Wednesday

Mar 27, 2013 at 11:33 AM

Courage is one of the hardest things to exhibit and should be one of the hardestthings to notice. Courage is usually associated with the military at war or during somekind of con?ict. I do believe it takes courage to put oneself in harm's way, and they whodo this have my deep respect. This kind of courage is easily noticed without question.

The type of courage I'm talking about is the courage hidden from most people.Those people who are facing dif?cult times and always remain positive and happy rarelyare described as courageous. Only those who knowingly put their troubles on exhibitionare noticed. Is this courageous? To one degree, yes. But the cancer victim whodoesn't ask for a bene?t is truly courageous. The person who has my trials to deal withand nobody knows about them are truly courageous. And of course the many sickchildren in the world who smile for one day free of pain have more courage than shouldbe expected.

The goal should be for each of us to have courage to say our troubles mean verylittle. We need not only to acknowledge others in need but to pray for them ahead ofourselves. Yes, that would take courage - the type of courage only God will notice,admire, and reward.

Courage is one of the hardest things to exhibit and should be one of the hardestthings to notice. Courage is usually associated with the military at war or during somekind of con?ict. I do believe it takes courage to put oneself in harm's way, and they whodo this have my deep respect. This kind of courage is easily noticed without question.

The type of courage I'm talking about is the courage hidden from most people.Those people who are facing dif?cult times and always remain positive and happy rarelyare described as courageous. Only those who knowingly put their troubles on exhibitionare noticed. Is this courageous? To one degree, yes. But the cancer victim whodoesn't ask for a bene?t is truly courageous. The person who has my trials to deal withand nobody knows about them are truly courageous. And of course the many sickchildren in the world who smile for one day free of pain have more courage than shouldbe expected.

The goal should be for each of us to have courage to say our troubles mean verylittle. We need not only to acknowledge others in need but to pray for them ahead ofourselves. Yes, that would take courage - the type of courage only God will notice,admire, and reward.